Reliability and Validity Assessment of Almutairi’s Critical Cultural Competence Scale

Abstract

Many attempts have been made to measure practitioners’ cultural competence in such a diverse area as nursing and health care. However, we find little to no evidence of such an attempt in the field of social work. In many studies, the Critical Cultural Competence Scale developed by Almutairi had proved to promote well being, equity and safety of practitioners, their family and service providers with the strong evidence for its psychometric properties. This paper presents the reliability and validity assessment of adapted Almutairi’s Critical Cultural Competence Scale (CCCS) for Indian context with 33 social work practitioners of National Capital Territory (NCT) of India practicing in different fields. For examining the validity, face validity and readability were assessed, and Cronbach’s Alpha was used to assess reliability. The final refined 3 component, 35 items scale is consistent with the three-factor measurement models in the most academic literature on the subject.